ubuntu-cve-2019-14249
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2019-07-24 04:15
Modified
2025-07-16 04:54
Summary
Details

dwarf_elf_load_headers.c in libdwarf before 2019-07-05 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (division by zero) via an ELF file with a zero-size section group (SHT_GROUP), as demonstrated by dwarfdump.

Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "dwarfdump",
            "binary_version": "20210528-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "dwarfdump-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "20210528-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libdwarf-dev",
            "binary_version": "20210528-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libdwarf1",
            "binary_version": "20210528-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libdwarf1-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "20210528-1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:22.04:LTS",
        "name": "dwarfutils",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/dwarfutils@20210528-1?arch=source\u0026distro=jammy"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "20210528-1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "20201201-1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "dwarfdump",
            "binary_version": "20210528-1build2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "dwarfdump-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "20210528-1build2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libdwarf-dev",
            "binary_version": "20210528-1build2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libdwarf1",
            "binary_version": "20210528-1build2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libdwarf1-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "20210528-1build2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:24.04:LTS",
        "name": "dwarfutils",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/dwarfutils@20210528-1build2?arch=source\u0026distro=noble"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "20210528-1build2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "20210528-1",
        "20210528-1build1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "dwarfdump",
            "binary_version": "20210528-1build2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "dwarfdump-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "20210528-1build2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libdwarf-dev",
            "binary_version": "20210528-1build2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libdwarf1",
            "binary_version": "20210528-1build2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libdwarf1-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "20210528-1build2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:25.04",
        "name": "dwarfutils",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/dwarfutils@20210528-1build2?arch=source\u0026distro=plucky"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "20210528-1build2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": []
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "dwarf_elf_load_headers.c in libdwarf before 2019-07-05 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (division by zero) via an ELF file with a zero-size section group (SHT_GROUP), as demonstrated by dwarfdump.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14249",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:54:45Z",
  "published": "2019-07-24T04:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14249"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/merge-requests/4/"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://sourceforge.net/p/libdwarf/code/ci/cb7198abde46c2ae29957ad460da6886eaa606ba/tree/libdwarf/dwarf_elf_load_headers.c?diff=99e77c3894877a1dd80b82808d8309eded4e5599"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14249"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/davea42/libdwarf-code/commit/cb7198abde46c2ae29957ad460da6886eaa606ba"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2019-14249"
  ],
  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:45:13Z"
}



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